UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1338
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338
Upstream
Published
2018-04-25T21:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:45Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.5-4ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.5-2
1.5-3
1.5-4
1.5-4ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.5-4ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.5-5?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.5-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.5-5"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338.json"

Ubuntu:25.10 / tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.22-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338.json"